United States, California, Butte, Sierra Nevada foothills, adjacent Hwy. 32, below Forest Ranch in the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve off Lookout Trail. Plants growing on a steep, open, grassy/rocky, hillside overlooking Big Chico Creek. USGS Quadrangle: Paradise West 1:24,000
39.823889 -121.713333 +-402m. NAD83
39§ 49m 26s N; 121§ 42m 48s W
518 meters
1700ft.
Plants growing on a steep, open, grassy/rocky, hillside overlooking Big Chico Creek. Host plant Saxifraga, see included. leaf. Corolla: purple.